A Flower Farmer Speaking Astrology

Written By Rebecca A

What This Work Is Really About

When someone asks “what we do”, most times we expect some clear-cut answer. We share our title or the main pieces of what our job entails.. Or perhaps the company we work for. When someone asks me what I do, it’s always interesting to see their reaction.

“I’m a flower farmer who talks about astrology and the seasons” is often met with a simple nod and a “hmm”, a puzzled look or sometimes even a “so what do you do, exactly?” sort of response. And I get it… either title on its own is probably a bit unexpected, let alone the combination of them.

But let me tell you a bit more…

You see, the seasons and cycles of the natural world aren’t some theoretical thing to me… and they certainly aren’t some general backdrop or aesthetic only. They’re the fabric of my days, and the farm (no matter the season) is the place where the lessons and reminders come to stay. With every seed I plant in the spring I’m reminded that new beginnings sometimes happen from even the smallest step… that hope for the beauty of the future is worth it. With every beetle that gets picked off of a beautiful bloom, or every butterfly that’s watched fluttering from stem to stem, or every bee cozied up for a sleep in the petals of a welcoming bloom, I’m reminded that there is so much more to this world than we sometimes remember… and that we’re all connected to it. With every summer storm I’m reminded of how resilient we can be if we have steady rooting. With every fall as the flowers fade and petals drop, I’m given permission to let go, too… and to honor the transition that comes from making space. You get the picture… and yet I could go on and on with the lessons that this farm teaches me about the seasons we live and the cycles we navigate in our own lives.

While nature has always been a companion of mine, I haven’t always used it as a mirror.

For the past twenty-plus years, after a pivotal moment that I consider to be my dark night of the soul, I’ve been learning how to build a relationship with myself. From the feeling of being directionless and riddled with anxiety, unsure of what my future was capable of looking like, to where I am now, it’s been a slow journey of peeling back the layers to not only understand who I am, but to embrace it. And at some point along the way (about ten years ago if I had to get specific) I realized that nature wasn’t just what I saw in the world around me, and astrology wasn’t just some abstract system of horoscopes and sun signs… these were lenses and mirrors to my being, too.

Astrology gave me the permission I was always looking for from others. You know, the feeling of being unconditionally valued for who you are, what you believe, how you move through the world? Because, you see, when I started looking at the specifics of astrology and my own birth chart, it’s like a lightbulb clicked.

All of a sudden my struggles with making decisions and being up in my head made sense when looking at my Sun and Mars in Gemini. And when I found myself transitioning from jobs (and industries) it wasn’t that I was lost, I was on a scavenger hunt that Pluto in my tenth house was supporting.

I started to understand that Aries season was actually when my own energy felt vibrant enough to start tackling goals and intentions, rather than in January like the Gregorian calendar would suggest. And in Scorpio season when the world embraces the darkness and the hidden depths of who we are, we honor our ancestors and those that have passed… and those that still perhaps walk amongst us.

Astrology now wasn’t only found in the sky, it was found in the seasons because it made up the seasons. For every natural season, there are seasons within it, a beginning, a middle and an end… and that becomes more and more evident when following the astrological energy of the season. Because maybe astrology and the natural seasons were never separate to begin with… both dictated by the sun, both reflecting the same rhythms. The connection was always there… we just stopped being taught to see it.

In my work, my goal is to take a system that might seem abstract and pull it down into the practical and tangible (and modern) world we live in. So that it’s a tool to be used not just a theory to explore. But above all, it’s a tool to help us build a relationship with ourselves. To give ourselves permission to be uniquely and truly who we are - in all of our humanness. We don’t need to be optimized or fixed, we don’t need to be on a never-ending hamster wheel of self-development and wellness fads… we just need to be who we are. But in order to do that, we need to understand who we are…

This space and my workis for the woman who is crying at the stoplight wondering why she’s feeling so unfulfilled in her life even though it looks good on paper. Who looks to other people for even the smallest opinions until one day she doesn’t even know what her own voice sounds like. It’s for the woman who is paralyzed on the direction to take because she doesn’t know the arms of her own compass. Or who feels blah in summer when the rest of the world is active and vibrant, because the cold and darkness of winter actually feels like her most comfortable space. This space is for Her.

My work, in truth, is the space I wish I had years ago when I was navigating these challenges in my own life. The place where I could learn that who I am - my gifts, my skills, my thought process, my timing and my energy - were unique to me. Something no one else would ever fully understand… and that was okay, because I didn’t need them to. I just needed to understand it myself. It would have been a space where I learned to accept myself… and embrace myself… exactly as I am, instead of feeling like I was someone who needed to be fixed.

If any of this resonates with you, you’re in the right space, and you’re in good company.


Until next time,

Rebecca

A bit about me…

I’m Rebecca (or Becca) - astrologer, flower farmer, and writer exploring life through seasons and cycles. I use astrology and the natural world as lenses for perspective… noticing patterns, timing, and the gentle wonder and wisdom woven through our ordinary days. My work is an invitation to pay attention, to get curious, and to move in rhythm with what feels true to you.

Rebecca A